{"id":13336,"date":"2013-09-18T17:05:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=13336"},"modified":"2013-09-18T17:05:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T16:05:51","slug":"nasa-releases-stunning-video-footage-of-a-rotating-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/nasa-releases-stunning-video-footage-of-a-rotating-moon\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA releases stunning video footage of a rotating Moon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13337\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/nasa-releases-stunning-video-footage-of-a-rotating-moon\/moon-footage-nasa\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-footage-nasa.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,299\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NASA releases stunning footage of a rotating Moon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-footage-nasa.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13337\" alt=\"NASA releases stunning footage of a rotating Moon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-footage-nasa.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-footage-nasa.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-footage-nasa-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/LRO\/main\/index.html#.UjczKMasiSo\" target=\"_blank\" data-rapid_p=\"9\">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/a>\u00a0(LRO) has been circling the Moon for over years, gathering an unprecedented amount of data about our nearest neighbour.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"13338\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/nasa-releases-stunning-video-footage-of-a-rotating-moon\/moon-footage-nasa-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-footage-nasa-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"620,306\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NASA releases stunning video footage of a rotating Moon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-footage-nasa-1.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13338\" alt=\"NASA releases stunning video footage of a rotating Moon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-footage-nasa-1.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-footage-nasa-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-footage-nasa-1-300x148.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amongst its many science gathering tasks, the LRO has been taking pictures of the entire lunar surface, and NASA recently stitched all of them together to create a fascinating\u00a0video of a rotating moon.<\/p>\n<p>The Moon is\u00a0&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tidal_locking\" target=\"_blank\" data-rapid_p=\"12\">tidally locked<\/a>&#8216; to the Earth, so that is always has one face pointed towards even though it does in fact rotate.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below (I recommend going full screen to appreciate its full beauty)<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"735\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sNUNB6CMnE8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>And here&#8217;s NASA&#8217;s super-spoddy explanation about how it was done.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A huge payoff from the longevity of the LRO mission is the repeat coverage obtained by the LROC Wide Angle Camera (WAC). The WAC has a very wide field-of-view (FOV), 90\u00b0 in monochrome mode and 60\u00b0 in multispectral mode, hence its name. On the one hand, the wide FOV enables orbit-to-orbit stereo, which allowed LROC team members at the DLR to create the unprecedented 100 meter scale near-global (0\u00b0 to 360\u00b0 longitude and 80\u00b0S to 80\u00b0N latitude) topographic map of the Moon (the GLD100)!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA&#8217;s\u00a0Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter\u00a0(LRO) has been circling the Moon for over years, gathering an unprecedented amount of data about our nearest neighbour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[408,407,406,242],"class_list":["post-13336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stuff","tag-moon","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-space"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/moon-footage-nasa.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-3t6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13340,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13336\/revisions\/13340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}